COCAINE & MORPHIA HABITS IN INDIA.
$ Tho general public (the India correspondent of the "Lancet" states) has little idea of the extent to which tbe cocaine and morphia habits have grovn in Bangoon, and of • the misery of tho most squalid and repulsive type to which it reduces its thousands of victims. In spite of the efforts of tho police and excise departments, the smuggling of these two diugs, he says, continues' on a largo scale. Large seizures and numerous prosecutions are of daily occurrence, yet no appreciable benefits are apparent, and "without exaggeration it may be said that for every grain seized a pound reaches the purveyors and consumers, and that tho real smugglers, who are trading in the life-blood of their brothers, are never reached." Practically the whole of tho cocaine and morphia that makes its way into Burmah is manufactured in . Germany.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 5
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144COCAINE & MORPHIA HABITS IN INDIA. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 5
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